Erik Ten Hag. (Credit: Twitter)
United journey to face struggling Burnley on Saturday languishing in thirteenth place within the Premier League — they’ve misplaced 18 of their previous 35 away matches in all competitions.
Erik ten Hag mentioned on Friday that Manchester United are preventing collectively to try to flip their fortunes round after a calamitous begin to the season.
The Red Devils have misplaced 4 of their first six matches in all competitions, leaving the Dutch supervisor with a significant activity on his fingers simply over a month into the brand new marketing campaign.
United journey to face struggling Burnley on Saturday languishing in thirteenth place within the Premier League — they’ve misplaced 18 of their previous 35 away matches in all competitions.
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“It’s my second year,” mentioned Ten Hag, whose workforce final season completed third within the desk and ended a six-year trophy drought.
“I know it’s not always only going up — you will have your gaps and you get stronger from it as long as you stay together, and that’s what we’re doing.
“The dressing room, staff, all the staff, coaches, medical, everyone is united and at United you fight.”
Stories of disgruntlement within the dressing room have begun to emerge whereas the perspective of gamers has additionally been questioned.
Ten Hag tried to color a optimistic image at his pre-match press convention, saying: “I don’t know if it’s a leak but I know the opinion(s), I know my players. Everyone can make suggestions, we are OK with it.”
United’s poor kind has made the journey to Burnley a high-pressure event, and they’ll once more be with out Jadon Sancho, who stays absent from the squad after a spat with the supervisor.
It is unclear whether or not the previous Borussia Dortmund winger will play for the membership once more.
“It depends on him,” mentioned Ten Hag. “For the rest, we are preparing for Burnley and that’s our focus. He will not be in the squad.”
United have been badly hit by accidents. Raphael Varane, Mason Mount, Sofyan Amrabat and Harry Maguire had been set to coach forward of the match at Turf Moor however Ten Hag was cautious when requested if they might be out there.
Central to United’s issues has been a scarcity of defensive solidity, with 14 objectives conceded of their previous 5 video games.
Goalkeeper Andre Onana held his fingers up after making a mistake for Bayern’s first aim within the 4-3 Champions League defeat this week, however Ten Hag believes the issues are collective.
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“It’s about the team and, as a team, we don’t have the results in this moment so then also individuals don’t bring the performance you expect, not only one player, there are more, including the manager,” he mentioned.
“I always tell my players we attack with 11 and we defend with 11. When one or two are not doing their job, it’s like a pack of cards, so that is not only one or two players.”
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